What are some good / bad questions to ask a Music Prof/ Applies Music teacher? The ones I typically ask are
What type Percussion Facilites do you have and can you attach a photo or two of them , if you can? The Percussion Prof at Western Carolona got really ticked about thst question. Most Prof’s I’ve asked this to have had zero problem with this request.
Can you attach a syllabus of Applied Lessons? I do this to see what the curriculum looks like, percussion wise, for the school and also what polices the teacher might have in place. My grandfather recently retired as the dean of a large community college in Ohio, and told me that’s a good question to ask. In my experience , Applied Lesson content varies from teacher to teacher.I’ve gotten mixed reactions about this. Some have happily sent me some, others have literally yelled at me for asking such a question. WHY. A prof would yell at.a prospective student I have no idea. Is thst even proper?
What’s the advantage of your program over a bigger school like FSU? most Prof’s I’ve asked this to, give me some general answers ( we’re much smaller in size, more individual attention etc), but some have gotten really specific about the differences between their school and others. I read an article on good questions to ask during a famous tour to a faculty member, and this was one of those questions. Now here’s my question, why would some Prof’s get mad at me asking this ? I’ve had to narrow down my choices even further because the Percusison Prof at Charelston Southern, which has a Music Therapy program, yelled at me for 30 min about that question. Definitely not a fun experience, epically for a Prof that’s at a conservative Christian school…
Anyone that reads this, feel free to chime in on this post and let me know if these are realsonable questions for a prospective student to ask.
Also, if any of you know of ANY Music Therapy and Percussion programs anywhere else other than where I mentioned ( East Carolina and IWU), please feel free to pass them along I’m looking for a school thst teaches Total Percussion, not just Classical or Jazz.